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title: When a good or pious thought passed through the mind of any one it w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When a good or pious thought passed through the mind of any one it was misrepresented in the glass; and then how the demon laughed at his cunning invention. Who acts: good thought, demon. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a loo
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 6

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When a good or pious thought passed through the mind of any one it was misrepresented in the glass; and then how the demon laughed at his cunning invention.

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**Who acts:** good thought, demon · **What happens:** pass, misrepresent, laugh, invent · **To what, where:** mind, thought, glass, cunning invention

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good thought, demon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:11667`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:170:6
# text = When a good or pious thought passed through the mind of any one it was misrepresented in the glass; and then how the demon laughed at his cunning invention.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	misrepresented	misrepresent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	cunning	cunning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	invention	invention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | a good thought |  |  | the mind  any one |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through mind=Location |
| 2 | **misrepresent** | past · passive |  | thought |  | the glass |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **laugh** | past | the demon |  |  | demon's cunning invention | then |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **invent** |  | demon |  |  |  |  |  | nom invention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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